Rick Bevins
@rbevins.bsky.social
🐌 Outdoor enthusiast [runner, angler, hiker, kayaker, and gardener]
📈Researcher [substance use, learning, Director of RDAR Center, humane leader]
✏️ Posts reflect MOO
📈Researcher [substance use, learning, Director of RDAR Center, humane leader]
✏️ Posts reflect MOO
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Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.
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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
www.aurorasaurus.org
Northern Lights - Crete Nebraska
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Northern Lights - Crete Nebraska
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From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪
Insiders warn how dismantling federal agencies could put science at risk
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪
Thinking I might need to up the price if I want to fund the next experiment.
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thinking I might need to up the price if I want to fund the next experiment.
“But no one I’ve ever respected takes pride in lessening another man or woman because of their own capability…” page 86
I recommend this book even to my friends that don’t fish. A thoughtful journey
Lines on the Water – David Adam Richards (1998) #fishing #flyfishing
I recommend this book even to my friends that don’t fish. A thoughtful journey
Lines on the Water – David Adam Richards (1998) #fishing #flyfishing
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“But no one I’ve ever respected takes pride in lessening another man or woman because of their own capability…” page 86
I recommend this book even to my friends that don’t fish. A thoughtful journey
Lines on the Water – David Adam Richards (1998) #fishing #flyfishing
I recommend this book even to my friends that don’t fish. A thoughtful journey
Lines on the Water – David Adam Richards (1998) #fishing #flyfishing
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The Big Conversation about how academic science should respond to any University that knuckles under to the “compact” needs to be had.
Sadly, it will not be had.
At best we will see a couple of op-eds from those who feel unassailable on each side.
Sadly, it will not be had.
At best we will see a couple of op-eds from those who feel unassailable on each side.
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Big Conversation about how academic science should respond to any University that knuckles under to the “compact” needs to be had.
Sadly, it will not be had.
At best we will see a couple of op-eds from those who feel unassailable on each side.
Sadly, it will not be had.
At best we will see a couple of op-eds from those who feel unassailable on each side.
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📣 Our Director Rick Bevins & Joyce Besheer are organizing the 73rd Nebraska Symposium on Motivation! The event will focus on the intersection of interoception, conditioning & motivation on addiction, health & well-being.
Apr 16-17, 2026 | Hybrid | Free & Open to All
🔗 Details: motivation.unl.edu
Apr 16-17, 2026 | Hybrid | Free & Open to All
🔗 Details: motivation.unl.edu
October 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📣 Our Director Rick Bevins & Joyce Besheer are organizing the 73rd Nebraska Symposium on Motivation! The event will focus on the intersection of interoception, conditioning & motivation on addiction, health & well-being.
Apr 16-17, 2026 | Hybrid | Free & Open to All
🔗 Details: motivation.unl.edu
Apr 16-17, 2026 | Hybrid | Free & Open to All
🔗 Details: motivation.unl.edu
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NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...
NIH Study Sections are on hold…again.
The primary input to deciding on the merit of proposals submitted to the NIH for potential funding, as most of my remaining blog audience well knows, is the outcome of the initial peer-review proce…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...
Windy Sunday morning run among the corn fields of southeast Nebraska #harvesttime #running #sunrise #cornfields
October 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Windy Sunday morning run among the corn fields of southeast Nebraska #harvesttime #running #sunrise #cornfields
Thanks to Dr Higgins and his amazing team a VCBH for an amazing conference focused on behavioral pharmacology. Great people, great science, great place. Already missing Burlington.
October 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thanks to Dr Higgins and his amazing team a VCBH for an amazing conference focused on behavioral pharmacology. Great people, great science, great place. Already missing Burlington.
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Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.
#neurojobs
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#neurojobs
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October 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.
#neurojobs
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#neurojobs
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"We're doing the studies to make the proof."
This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.
This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"We're doing the studies to make the proof."
This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.
This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.
So, looking forward to the Vermont Center on Behavior & Health conference starting tomorrow. Jack Henningfield is keynote with lots of behavioral pharmacology on the agenda.
There is a virtual option. Check out the following website. Registration is free. conta.cc/3VyDTTF
There is a virtual option. Check out the following website. Registration is free. conta.cc/3VyDTTF
VCBH 13th Annual Conference on Oct 9-10, 2025
Email from Vermont Center on Behavior and Health It's only two weeks away! Registration is still open and free! Join us for one or both days in-person or attend remotely Register Now Visit our websit
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October 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So, looking forward to the Vermont Center on Behavior & Health conference starting tomorrow. Jack Henningfield is keynote with lots of behavioral pharmacology on the agenda.
There is a virtual option. Check out the following website. Registration is free. conta.cc/3VyDTTF
There is a virtual option. Check out the following website. Registration is free. conta.cc/3VyDTTF
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This administration once claimed they were going to make sure grants were only funded on pure merit.
IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This administration once claimed they were going to make sure grants were only funded on pure merit.
Came across a picture of our long passed Thomas (circa 2000). Made me smile, made me laugh. Thought I would share.
September 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Came across a picture of our long passed Thomas (circa 2000). Made me smile, made me laugh. Thought I would share.
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Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!
September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!
Out running gravel among the corn this morning.
September 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Out running gravel among the corn this morning.
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NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way
End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way
End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way
First order of business moving to a new town - get my library card!
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
First order of business moving to a new town - get my library card!
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Me and the frog sharing the same vibe this morning.
August 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Me and the frog sharing the same vibe this morning.
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